While using AI to take over decision-making when it comes to termination may not be a solid idea, using it for assistive work here is more defensible.

HR's Rising Star Nadia Alaee of Deel built two AI-assisted workforce models covering more than 7,200 employees and 1,000-plus managers, then made sure a human still had to sign off on every call.

While AI can help with any number of tasks around employees, employers risk letting AI make consequential decisions without sufficient human analysis behind them.

AI has broken old assumptions about how talent is developed. For talent executives, that's not an L&D problem. It's a talent strategy problem.